Koolwijk author of Children’s Book Week, poet chosen through competition | Show

“Children’s books are full of strong characters who show us how much fun it is to do what you want,” the CPNB said in an explanation. ‘From the cheeky verses of Annie MG Schmidt to books full of stubborn figures who do things their own way. From Matilda to Mees Kees and from the Neehoorn to the brave knight.’

This Children’s Book Week is about doing things a little differently. That is why no poet has been asked for the Children’s Book Week poem this year, but the poet of the Children’s Book Week is being sought through a competition in collaboration with De Schoolschrijven. All children between the ages of 6 and 12 in the Netherlands have a chance to become the poet of the Children’s Book Week 2024.

Until April 28, children can submit their poem that fits the theme Nice and stubborn!, submit via the Children’s Book Week website. A jury of three poets decides which child can call himself poet of the Children’s Book Week 2024. The winner will be announced during the opening of the Children’s Book Week on Wednesday, October 2.

Last year, poet Pim Lammers was chosen to write the Children’s Book Week poem. But he withdrew after receiving death threats on social media. The anger was fueled, among other things, by singer Monique Smit and model Kim Feenstra sharing fragments without context from a story that Lammers had written in the past about a football coach who harbors feelings for a pupil.

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